Listen to the Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6wdn1EQtwVtrA7aFjYCTgB

Featured Albums: Forest Swords - Compassion (2:05) Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (3:51) Perfume Genius - No Shape (7:03) Slowdive - Slowdive (8:34) The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (10:20) Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (12:21) At the Drive-In - Interalia (13:55) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (17:27)

Honorable Mentions: Logic - Everybody (19:11) Juana Molina - Halo (20:39) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.2 (21:37) Blondie - Pollinator (22:04) John Moreland - Big Bad Luv (22:51) Harry Styles - Harry Styles (23:17) Pwr Bttm - Pageant (24:26) Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind - Super Natural (25:16) Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (25:58) Girlpool - Powerplant (26:38) The Mountain Goats - Goths (27:14) Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (28:04) Don Bryant - Don't Give Up on Love (28:42) Paramore - After Laughter (29:15) Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth (29:49) Pumarosa - The Witch (30:41) Aldous Harding - Party (31:14) Nick Hakim - Green Twins (32:06) Land of Talk - Life After Youth (32:59) (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (33:37) Wavves - You're Welcome (34:40) Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street (35:15) Pokey LaFarge - Manic Revelations (36:14) The Charlatans - Different Days (36:45) The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks (37:11)

Not Recommended: Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud (37:56) Black Lips - Satan's Graffiti or God's Art? (38:38) Pond - The Weather (39:07) Jlin - Black Origami (39:40)

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we cover Spoon's most recent five albums, rank all nine albums, and discuss where we'd like to see the band go next.

Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6uT1oe0dU6Oy5UidtchJrW

Featured Albums: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2:06) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (27:57) Gorillaz - Humanz (32:47) The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions (41:14) Feist - Pleasure (43:25)

Honorable Mention: Arca - Arca (46:12) Wire - Silver/Lead (47:19) Guided By Voices - August By Cake (48:22) Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$ (49:07) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (50:10) Andrew Combs - Canyons of My Mind (50:45) Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (51:19) Future Islands - The Far Field (52:07) Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock (52:57) Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters (54:11) Woods - Love Is Love (55:16) Actress - AZD (55:50) Maximo Park - Risk to Exist (56:25) Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution (57:19) The Black Angels - Death Song (58:47) Charly Bliss - Guppy (59:18) Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil (1:00:26) Little Cub - Still Life (1:00:58) Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child (1:01:53) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (1:02:32) Mew - Visuals (1:03:06) Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (1:04:11) Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness (1:04:40) BNQT - Volume 1 (1:05:38) Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle (1:06:38) Sylvan Esso - What Now (1:07:35) New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick (1:08:30)

Not Recommended: Happyness - Write In (1:09:19) Little Dragon - Season High (1:10:07) Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This (1:11:03) Incubus - 8 (1:12:04) While She Sleeps - You Are We (1:12:53)

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we follow Spoon through their formation and up to their 4th LP, Kill the Moonlight.

Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

On this podcast, Jake and Tom discuss the albums they purchased on their last few vinyl-buying excursions.

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/50GI8eRZ5eRxF4ResrCpjK

Featured Albums: Grandaddy - Last Place (1:59) The Shins - Heartworms (3:11) Jay Som - Everybody Works (5:12) Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (6:44) Laura Marling - Semper Femina (9:38) Spoon - Hot Thoughts (11:19) Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (12:12) Desperate Journalist - Grow Up (16:47) Tennis - Yours Conditionally (18:10)

Honorable Mentions: Temples - Volcano (19:53) Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai (20:36) Why? - Moh Lhean (21:15) Nadia Reid - Preservation (2:13) Blanck Mass - World Eater (22:55) Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (23:43) Chicano Batman - Freedom is Free (24:12) Spectres - Condition (24:54) Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (25:31) Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (26:02) Valerie June - The Order of Time (27:01) Depeche Mode - Spirit (27:45) Idles - Brutalism (28:49) Obituary - Obituary (29:16) Pulled Apart by Horses - The Haze (30:03) Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think (30:36) The Bug & Earth - Concrete Desert (31:15) Pallbearer - Heartless (31:51) Craig Finn - We All Want the Same Things (32:49) Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (33:23) Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (33:56) Saltland - A Common Truth (34:42) British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (35:32) Pharmakon - Contact (36:15) Aimee Mann - Mental Illness (37:14) Real Estate - In Mind (37:55) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy (39:02) Les Amazones d'Afrique - Republique Amazone (39:43)

Not Recommended: Sleaford Mods - English Tapas (40:03) Minus the Bear - Voids (41:35) Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales- Room 29 (42:19) Conor Oberst - Salutations (43:18) The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics (44:20) Jamiroquai - Automaton (45:21)

Velocities In Music started at the beginning of 2010, and since then we've had the privilege of witnessing the release of some monumental albums. In this podcast, we highlight our top 20 albums of the decade so far.

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/41qlohpNu8qObXNg9hcMnw

Full List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/

On this show, we talk a lot about ways of discovering new music. One way that we discover new music is through Music Leagues: friendly, competitive events where everyone playing submits a song and votes for the other songs that they liked.

If this sounds like something you and your friends (or coworkers) would enjoy, take a look at our example documents and start a Music League of your own: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxPjHMrv-jexdVBKVnpzWnlqNE0

Listen to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1xzK543YVcqiMbBODahmgP

Featured Albums: Elbow - Little Fictions Sampha - Process Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now Lowly - Heba Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors Ryan Adams - Prisoner Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood

Honorable Mentions: The Menzingers - After the Party Eliza Carthy - Big Machine Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.1 Duke Garwood - Garden of Ashes Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Backlash The Sadies - Northern Passages Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Tinariwen - Elwan Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy The Feelies - In Between Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism Molly Burch - Please Be Mine Moire - No Future The Necks - Unfold Xiu Xiu - Forget PVT - New Spirit Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon Peter Silberman - Impermanence Sherwood & Pinch - Man vs. Sofa Immolation - Atonement Thundercat - Drunk

Not Recommended: Surfer Blood - Snowdonia Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Light Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering Acceptance - Colliding By Design

As music in the latter half of the 90s drifted away from the Britpop style Blur had helped popularize, the band shifted into a noisier and more aggressive style of music. In this episode, we cover Blur's 1997 self-titled album through 2015's The Magic Whip, a period filled with inner conflict, departures, reunions, and transformations from a band who never seemed comfortable doing the same thing twice.